About Annette
Annette Warner is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota with 22 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, mood changes, or parenting challenges. Annette also supports people dealing with trauma, ADHD, sleep problems, obsessive thoughts, and relationship strains.
Annette draws on long experience with people across many life stages and situations. She has worked in settings that included students and foster care, and has provided care for adults with persistent mental health conditions.
Background and approach
Those experiences shape how she follows each person's pace and priorities. Her style is calm and warm. She aims to create a room where people can speak honestly and begin to make small, useful changes.
Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and ways to feel steadier day to day. Annette commonly uses client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness skills, and trauma-focused ideas to address difficult memories and painful reactions. She helps people build skills for managing panic, obsessive thoughts, anger, and low mood while also attending to family and parenting concerns.
People who choose Annette often want steady, down-to-earth guidance and tools they can try between sessions. She works in English and practices from Minnesota, bringing a straightforward approach to problem solving and emotional recovery.
Practical approaches for online healing
Client-centered therapy places you at the center of the work. The therapist listens closely, follows your concerns, and helps you set goals that matter to you. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental place to talk about stress, parenting pressures, or relationship hurt.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include simple experiments and skill-building to reduce panic, manage worry, and change unhelpful habits. Mindfulness therapy teaches short practices to notice thoughts and bodily signals, which can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and emotional reactivity.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most helpful and adjust methods over time based on goals and preferences. This collaborative process helps match techniques to real-life needs rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you hold a longer session with face-to-face interaction, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a workday, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins or steps between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy around family life, work, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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